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Vampires & Legends: The Legend of Dracula, “Son of the Dragon”

Vlad of Wallachia, better known as Vlad the Impaler, is most likely the root of several vampire legends including Dracula. He would impale his enemies on stakes (hence his nickname) and some stories even claim that Vlad would eat bread that had been dipped in his enemies' blood.

Few names have cast more terror into the human heart than Dracula. The legendary vampire, created by author Bram Stoker for his 1897 novel of the same name, has inspired countless horror movies, television shows and other bloodcurdling tales of vampires.

Though Dracula may seem like a singular creation, Stoker in fact drew inspiration from a real-life man with an even more grotesque taste for blood: Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia or — as he is better known — Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Tepes), a name he earned for his favorite way of dispensing with his enemies.

Vlad III was born in 1431 in Transylvania, a mountainous region in modern-day Romania. His father was Vlad II Dracul, ruler of Wallachia, a principality located to the south of Transylvania. Vlad II was granted the surname Dracul ("dragon") after his induction into the Order of the Dragon, a Christian military order supported by the Holy Roman emperor. [8 Grisly Archaeological Discoveries]

Situated between Christian Europe and the Muslim lands of the Ottoman Empire, Transylvania and Wallachia were frequently the scene of bloody battles as Ottoman forces pushed westward into Europe, and Christian Crusaders repulsed the invaders or marched eastward toward the Holy Land.

When Vlad II was called to a diplomatic meeting in 1442 with Sultan Murad II, he brought his young sons Vlad III and Radu along. But the meeting was actually a trap: All three were arrested and held hostage. The elder Vlad was released under the condition that he leave his sons behind.



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Vampires & Legends: The legend of the blood countess

Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who lived from 1560 to 1614 in Hungary, was accused of vampire behavior: Biting the flesh of victims and bathing in their blood as a beauty treatment. 

She has been described as the most vicious female serial killer in all recorded history. Where fact ends and fiction begins in her horrible story is now impossible to determine but in her fame as a legendary vampire she is outrivalled only by Count Dracula. Born in 1560, she was endowed with looks, wealth, an excellent education and a stellar social position as one of the Bathory family, who ruled Transylvania as a virtually independent principality within the kingdom of Hungary.

When she was 11 or 12 Elizabeth was betrothed to Ferenc Nádasdy of another aristocratic Hungarian family but a year or two later she had a baby by a lower-order lover. Nádasdy was reported to have had him castrated and then torn to pieces by dogs. The child, a daughter, was quietly hidden from view and Elizabeth and Nádasdy were married in 1575 when she was 14. Because Elizabeth socially outranked her husband, she kept the surname Bathory, which he added to his own. The young couple lived in the Nádasdy castles in Hungary at Sárvár and Csetje (now in Slovakia) but Ferenc was an ambitious soldier and was often away. Elizabeth ran the estates, took various lovers and bore her husband four children. She was 43 when he died in 1604.

Word was beginning to spread about her sadistic activities. It was said that she enjoyed torturing and killing young girls. At first they were servants at her castles, daughters of the local peasants, but later they included girls sent to her by local gentry families to learn good manners. She believed that drinking the blood of young girls would preserve her youthfulness and her looks. Witnesses told of her stabbing victims or biting their breasts, hands, faces and arms, cutting them with scissors, sticking needles into their lips or burning them with red-hot irons, coins or keys. Some were beaten to death and some were starved. The story that Elizabeth used to bathe in their blood seems to have been added later on.  A Lutheran minister went to the Hungarian authorities, who eventually began an investigation in 1610. In December of that year Elizabeth was arrested and so were four of her favourite servants and intimates, who were accused of being her accomplices. They were tried and found guilty. Three of them were executed and the fourth was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Elizabeth herself was not put on trial because of her family's standing, but she was shut up in Csetje Castle, held in solitary confinement in a room whose windows were walled up. She was 54 when she died there in 1614.

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Re: Why can't vampires drink "dead blood"?

I see! Japan is a cremation. I don't know much about vampires. It will be helpful.
It was good to hear various stories 😊😊

Re: Why can't vampires drink "dead blood"?

This may be because of several factors. 

First, not long after the death the blood begins to clot and coagulation is very mich present, so fluids begin to separate. So the cells tend to settle to the bottom and water tends to be more towards the top. 

Second, the blood is no longer as nutrient rich. Many things are absorbed into the bloodstream and distributed around the body. Such things break down shortly after death. 

So I can see why "dead blood" would be damaging. 

Squinting Owl 

 

Re: Can vampires drink from other vampires?

In the Forever Knight specific universe, vampires often bite their vampire lovers. It causes a mutual feedback loop of emotions, because the blood connection shares the other’s skills, memories, and feelings. They also have difficulty resisting biting when they’re sexually aroused- it’s instinctive and intertwined, feeding and sexuality.

Re: Why do vampires bite the neck?

As RereRini san said, I might have felt attractive to vampires
The perspective has changed. ✝️

Re: Can vampires survive without blood?

This is how it feels when I have low blood sugar levels, weak, shaky and drained of life. 

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Why do vampires bite the neck?

If a vampire goes for the neck, he'll get more blood the lower down he bites,
since the common carotid artery splits off into two smaller arteries about halfway up...
The most accessible veins are the jugular in the neck and the great saphenous vein
that runs just under the skin inside your upper thigh.

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Can vampires survive without blood?

Vampires will not die without blood since their immortal fate is sealed
within the supernatural DNA of their living dead body... However, if a vampire denies itself
blood or is somehow locked away without it then it will grow ever weaker over time. 
Τhe vampire will be weaker than a zombie and even a human!

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Can vampires drink from other vampires?

Yes. Vampires can drink vampires' blood, but it won't make them survive. I
t is not proper nourishment. It even has an intoxicating effect on them and may provoke paranoia.

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